Movie Quiz

DONALD CLARKE'SWeekly Movie Quiz

1Which of this week's releases was directed by David Bowie's son?

2Which character has presented Get Über It and Funkyzeit?

3What word links Date, Scary, Disaster and Superhero?

4Which film is the most successful ever at the box-ffice when figures are adjusted for inflation?

5Who, according to Lulu, was "an assassin second to none"?

6On what train might you encounter (among others) James Bond, Norman Bates, Tom Jones, Guinevere and Basil Exposition?

7Who, in 2001, enjoyed a "fabuleux destin"?

8Aurally speaking, which is the odd one out: ET, Schindler's List, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Colour Purple or Close Encounters of the Third Kind?

9Who is the odd one out: John Howard Davies, Ryan O'Neal, Barney Clark, Mark Lester?

10Dirty Love, Basic Instinct 2 I Know Who Killed Me, The Love Guru (in that order). What's the connection?

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1. Moon

2. Brüno

3. Movie

4. Gone With the Wind

5. The Man with the Golden Gun

6. The Orient Express. The question refers to, respectively, Sean Connery, Anthony Perkins, Albert Finney, Vanessa Redgrave and Michael York?

7. Amélie. The full French title of the film was Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain.

8. The Colour Purple. It is the only one of these Spielberg films not to feature a score by John Williams. The music was by Quincy Jones.

9. Ryan O'Neal. All the rest played Oliver Twist. But Ryan did play Oliver in Love Story and Oliver's Story.

10. Successive winners of worst picture at the Razzies